Coprophagy: A supplementary food source for two freshwater gastropods?

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 145-157

  Brendelberger, Heinz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHNANTHES; ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BITHYNIA TENTACULATA; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDII; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHLOROPHYTA; EUNOTIA PECTINALIS; GASTROPODA; LACTUCA; LANCEOLATA; PLANOTHIDIUM LANCEOLATUM; PROSOBRANCHIA; RADIX PEREGRA; TENTACULATA;

EID: 0030857910     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2427.1997.00201.x     Document Type: Article

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